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The decision of the National Judicial Council initiating the removal of the President of the NOJ is unfounded.

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Judges working in the field of administrative and labour law had to declare until 30 April 2019 whether they want to continue their work at administrative courts to be established on 1 January 2020, or to remain within the ordinary court system.

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Administrative and labour courts were abolished as of 31 March 2020. In administrative court cases the Budapest-Capital, Budapest Environs, Debrecen, Győr, Miskolc, Pécs, Szeged and Veszprém Regional Courts proceed with regional competence on first instance.

The NationalOffice for the Judiciary has organised the International Conference on Courts and Communication for this sixth time in the Hungarian Academy of Justice (Magyar Igazságügyi Akadémia) in 2018. This confererence – having evolved into a traditional event – serves as a professional forum for foreign and domestic judges, communications experts, to share good practices relating to court communications. The conference series have hosted nearly 600 interested professionals from several European countries over the past six years.

Regarding the disciplinary proceedings against judges and the related compensations, as well as the disputes arising from the evaluation of  their work as judges or as court executives from 1 July 2011 the First Instance Service Court has started its work at the Budapest Regional Court of Appeal Court and the Second Instance Service Court at the Curia.

The staff of the First Instance Service Court can be a maximum of 75 judges, menwhile that of the Second Instance Service Court 15.

Programme

I. Strengthening public relations at courts: new communication tools and trends

  • Merethe Eckhardt (DK), Director of Development, Danish Court Administration
  • Gerard Tangenberg (NL), Senior Vice-president, Rechtbank Nord-Nederland
  • William Valasidis, Director of Communications, Court of Justice of the EU

 

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A strategic cooperation agreement has been concluded between the National Office for the Judiciary and the NISZ National Infocommunications Services Company Ltd. (NISZ Ltd.) with the aim of further developing the courts’ infrastructure in the field of remote interviewing and installing image and sound recording apparatus in the courtrooms. The agreement was signed by Dr. Tünde Handó, President of the National Office for the Judiciary and Ferenc Bancsics, CEO of NISZ Ltd. on 12 February 2019.

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This year’s National Judicial Sports Days ended this Sunday. The program at the University of Miskolc campus was organized jointly by the Debrecen Regional Court of Appeal and the Balassagyarmat, Debrecen, Eger, Miskolc and Nyíregyháza Regional Courts with the support of Dr. Tünde Handó, President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ).

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Last year, 80 percent of the bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings have already been launched by electronic means at the courts throughout the country. That means a total of 95 112 cases submitted electronically, which constitutes an increase of more than 60 percent compared with the year 2017.

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This year, the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) has launched the court photo contest „Courts in Focus” for the fifth time. Around 400 entries were received from 40 applicants, which is the second highest number of entries so far – said the president of the NOJ at the awards ceremony.

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Last year 72 courtrooms have been equipped by the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) in cooperation with the National Infocommunications Service Company Ltd. (NISZ) for the performance of remote hearings. Nevertheless, developments have not stopped, by the end of this year, the innovative technology will be applicable in 184 courtrooms.

Dr. Éva Hajnal, president of the Kaposvár Regional Court appointed the new president of the District Court of Marcali, dr. Gábor Trombitás, for terms of six years, from 1 July 2015.

Dr. Gábor Trombitás graduated from the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law in 2001. Also this year in June, he started to work as a court clerk at the Disctrict Court of Marcali. After his bar exam, from 1 July 2005 he worked at the same place as a court secretary, then he was appointed for judge by the President of the Republic from 1 November 2008.

Answers to questionnaire

Internal Communication workshop

  1. What are the main goals of the organizational internal communication (internal public relations) and what kind of activities and targeted programs are associated with them?
  2. What kind of tools are applied in the organizational internal communication to strengthen the commitment and the loyalty of employees and retain the knowledge and the talent?

As part of social responsibility, courts shall actively participate in the spreading of legal knowledge. The National Office for the Judiciary has started an educational road show in secondary schools promoting transparent and open justice, also called „Open courts”. 

The motto of the program is “You are afraid of what you do not know”.

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Combining traditions and modern architectural elements, creating court management functions – all these developments to court buildings are presented in the fresh special edition of the journal published by the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) in collaboration with Octogon.

„Biztonságban a bíróságokon”

A projektfejlesztés célja

'We have gathered today to celebrate the foremost members of our profession; judges, court leaders, clerks and members of the court staff'.

Dr. Sándor Fazekas, president in office of the National Judicial Council (NJC) has started his solemn speech with these words.

The Open Court Programme, initiated by the NOJ in 2012 for social responsibility purposes in order to facilitate the judicial career orientation and law-awareness of the new generations, completed its sixth successful year.

This programme with colourful content and methodology that is realized with the wide-scope, active and create contribution of the courts attracts tens of thousands of people every year.

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During a five-month period 207 judges held 447 distant-hearings with the newly developed distant-hearing system. Penal institutions were the second most-used place for this purpose with 94 occasions, including 18 foreign spots.

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Last year, a new Code of Civil Procedure, Code of Administrative Litigation and Code of Criminal Procedure entered into force and the scope of court cases to be dealt with by electronic means was also extended – recounted the English-language report of the National Office for the Judiciary on the court system in the first half of 2018.